Refrigerator-car.



H. PRIES. REFRIGERATOR GAR. APPLICATION FILED mm: 21, 1909.

Patented N0v.9, 1909.

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H. PRIES. REFRIGERATOR GAR. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1909.

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REFRIGERATOR-CAR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN PRIZES, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Michigan City, county of Laporte, and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Oars,

of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates tothat class of refrigerator cars in which thepartition separating the body of the car into a storage and an icecompartment is removable for the purpose of permitting the utillzationof the entire interior of the car for storage pur-' oses. p Theinvention consists in the novel features hereinaiiter pointed outrelating to the construction of the partition,the means for securing itin position, and the means for providing for its removal and storagewhen not in service; and it consists further in a structure such as ishereinafter described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which-- Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section ofthe body of a carshowing the partition in elevation; Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinalvertical section of the car; Fig.3 is a detail plan section thereofshowing a supporting roller for carrying the partition when not inservice; Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of the floor of the car showingthe rest for the lower end of the partition when in service, some of theparts being broken away; Fig. 5 is a detail plan section of the sidewall of the car and of the supporting latch for carrying'the partition wen not in service; and Fig. 6 is an elevation of the latch and itscasing shown in Fig. 5.

Certain sills of the car are shown at 10, and its floor at 11. At 12,13, there are shown the side walls, and at 15 the roof of the car.

The partition for separating the car into its two compartments comprisesa framework consistmg of a plurality of upright bars 16,17, the formerbeing as numerous as may be desired, and the latter consti tutin theends ofthe frame; and a plural-- ity o cross-bars 18. The inner face ofthe partition, that is to say, the face presented to the ice, comprisesa plurality of cross slats 19, spaced apart to permit circulation of airbetween the two compartments. There Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 21,1909. Serial No. 503,406.

. Patented Nov. 9, 1909.

partition, but the invention is applicable to a partition of anypreferred construction.

. has been described a conventional form of v The table for supportingthe ice comprises the longitudinal bars 20 and 21, theformer beingshownas of wood and the latter a metal Z-bar; and a plurality ofcross-bars 22. This floor is hinged, as represented at 23, to the end ofthe car, and its free end is supported by legs 24, as many beingemployed as may be required, three being represented in the drawings,these legs being pivoted to the Z-ba-r 21 so that they may be swungupwardly when the floor is folded against the end of the car to thedotted lines position of Fig. 2. A gravity latch 25 is shown as pivotedto the end of the car for .engaging the Z-bar 21 when the floor israised. 1

The lower end of the partition is preferably armored with an angle bar26, which, when the partition is in service, is seated in a chair formedof a plurality of straps 27 folded over and gained into a cross-sill 28,

secured to the floor of the car. The inner endof each of the straps 27is upturned, as shown at 29, to form a stop to hold the partitionagainst inward movement. The top of the sill 28 is armored by means of ametal plate 30, which slightly overhangs the inner face of the sill andabuts against the up standing leaf of the angle bar 26.

At its upper end the partition bears against a pair of rollers (only oneof which is shown), as 31, journaled upon studs 32, setting through andprojecting beyond the inner face of the wall of the car, these rollersbeing spaced apart from the car roof a sufficient distance to permit thepartition to slide over them when its lower end is swung forwardly intothe storage compartment of the car. In order to protect these rollersfrom injury by the ice, each is covered by means of a stout sheet metalhood 33, carried by the partition. The upper end of the partition isheld against forward movement, when in service, by any suitable means.For this purpose there is shown a plurality of gravity latches 34,pivoted to the upper cross rail of the artition and entering sockets, as35, formed 1n the under face of'a cross-beam 36 of the car. v

When not required for service the partition is stored in the top of thecar, in the dotted lines position shown in Fig. 2. To

raise it to this position the latches 34 are first disengaged from theirsockets, the partition is'then raised out of engagement with the plateand its lower end swung upwardly in the storage compartment, thepartition then being pushed back upon the rollers 31 until its upperedge abuts against the end of the car and rests upon a cross-beam 37.Its lower end is engaged by a pair of latches (only one of which isshown), as 38, projecting inwardly from the sidewall of the car. Asshown, each of these latches is carried by an upright pivot 39, setwithin a chambered casing 40, secured to the side wall of the car, intothe chamber of which the latch may be swung to permit the partition tobe raised above it. In order that the latch may be returned to itsoperative position by gravity, it is shownas being provided with abeveled flange 41, which engages a beveled floor 42 of the casing 40.When the latch is pushed back into the chamber of the casing,

these beveled members raise itby a cam ac tion and by a similar actionswing it outwardly when it is released.

- Various details of construction may be deviated from without departingfrom the scope of the invention, which broadly consists in meansprovidedfor carrying the partition when out of service and holding itsecurely in the position of service.

I claim as my invention '1. In a refrigerator car, in combination, abody, a movable partition for dividing the body into two compartments,stops projecting from the walls of the body for engaging the partitionat one side thereof and adjacent its upper end, such stops being spacedapart from the top of the body, means for staying the partition on theside opposite the stops, and an additional support attached to the bodycooperating with the stops to carry the partition in a substantiallyhorizonta position.

2. In a refrigerator car, in combination, a body, a movable partitionfor dividing the body into two compartments, studs project- I inginwardly from the body walls adjacent the tops thereof and en aging oneface of the partition, and an ad itional support for the partition whenraised to a substantially horizontal position and moved back on thestuds.

3. In a refrigerator car, in combination a body having instanding studsadjacent t e tops of its side walls, a movable partition for dividingthe body into two compartments, such partition bearing a ainst the studsand being slidable thereon w en raised to a substantially horizontalposition.

4. In a refrigerator car, in combination, a body having instanding studsadjacent the tops of its side Walls, a movable partition for dividingthe 'body into two compartments such partition bearing a ainst the studsan being slidable thereon w en raised to a substantially horizontalposition, and a latch secured to the body and engaging the partitionwhen raised.

5. In a refrigerator car, in combination, a body having instanding studsadjacent the tops of its side walls, a movable partiton for dividing thebody into two compartments, such partition bearing against the studs andbeing slidable thereon when raised to a substantially horizontalposition, and a gravity latch secured to the body and movable into apocket in the wall thereof and adapted to engage the partition whenraised.

6. In a refrigerator car, in combination, a body, studs projectinginwardly from the side walls thereof adjacent their tops, a sillcrossing the floor of the car, a movable partition having one of itsfaces in contact with the studs and its opposite face en a in the sill,lugs rising from the floor of the ody engaging the partition to hold itagainst the sill, and latches engaging the partition and .a portion ofthe body to hold the partition against the studs.

7. In a refri erator car, in combination, a body, a movabIe partitionfor dividing the body into two compartments, a chair on the floor of thebody for reoeivin the partition, studs projecting inwardly rom the sidewalls of the body adjacent their tops for enaging one face of thepartition, and latches or holding the partition against the studs.HERMAN PRIES. Witnesses:

" Jim. W. CARLSON,

WILLIAM R. R. Luce.

